This manuscript describes the need elementary teachers have to analyze beginning and complex texts for teaching affordances and obstacles when teaching reading foundational skills and core ELA standards. A Guide to Analyze Texts for Elementary Students (GATES) is provided and described. Two teacher cases discuss how real teachers have used the…

Unaffordable textbooks highlight neoliberal regimes in higher education, whereby privatization and profit undermine student success. The cost of textbooks has risen more than 1,000% since 1977 (Popken, B. 2015, Aug. 6. College textbook prices have risen 1,041 percent since 1977. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/…

College level geomorphology/geology textbooks are evaluated for their environmental content and teaching quality. (RM)

Compares coverage of women and crime in sociology journals published from 1956-1960 and from 1976-1980 with coverage in criminology texts published from 1956-1965 and from 1976-1985. Data shows despite recent increases in publication of research in journals, criminology texts show little improvement in their coverage of women and crime. Concludes…

Examines a newly developed high school textbook designed to achieve the four goals of environmental education: (1) knowledge and information; (2) skills, values, and attitudes; (3) behaviors; and (4) participation. (Author/CCM)

Provides a guide for selecting/evaluating textbooks for courses on marriage and family topics. Applies these guidelines to 13 introductory level textbooks published between 1984 and 1986. (JDH)

Reviews how the subject of communications technology is treated in nine mass media textbooks that have been adopted widely and form the intellectual introduction for students studying mass communication. (PD)

Discusses the evaluation of middle school science textbooks by Project 2061. Reports that none of nine widely used textbook series got a passing grade. Presents the criteria and what was wrong with the textbooks. (ASK)

Reviews undergraduate public finance textbooks for content, difficulty, and ideology. Includes tables summarizing the percentage space devoted to specific topics in 13 popular textbooks. Offers suggestions for supplementary materials. (Author/DH)

The most obvious clue of the general absence of prosociality in social studies texts is the general omission of prosocial concepts in their organizing frameworks. Practical ideas for infusing social studies curricula with prosocial content are presented. (RM)

Examines the roles of experimental tasks in "Elementary Geometry" (1903) by Godfrey and Siddons, which is considered one of the most important geometry textbooks in the history of geometry teaching. Roles of experimental tasks included preparations for deductive geometry and, even though it is implicit, the verification of geometrical facts.…

Presents the annecdotal results of an analysis of 11 major publishers' high school world history textbooks. Provides criteria for evaluating such books and concludes that, as a group, these textbooks promoted Western ethnocentrism. (JDH)

A four-factor approach to estimating the readability of content area texts for learning disabled students focuses on vocabulary, syntax, density, and format. (CL)

Indicates that the Rix modification of the Lix Readability Formula is easy to calculate, correlates highly with other popular formulas, and is useful for materials for grades 3 through 12. (AEA)

Discusses the quality of textbooks, worksheets, and laboratory manuals and presents Project 2061's review of science and mathematics textbooks in the United States. (YDS)